The two gained support among an increase in creatively wasted or ‘donkey’ votes in the elections, which also saw Queenslanders make their indifference towards the elections palpably clear with strong push also coming for deceased psychedelic rocker Jimi Hendrix and North Queensland Cowboys NRL half-back Jonathan Thurston.

Commissioner for the Electoral Commission Queensland (ECQ) Dermot Tiernan told the ABC that more than 3 per cent of the votes counted being informal votes is above average. “We like to target around 2.2 to 2.5 per cent”.

Both Trump and West also appear unfortunately to have gained less votes than people voting by connecting the dots on their ballot papers “We’ve got a bit of work to do with the Queensland community”, he said. “Most people literally played join-the-dots and drew a line through everything”.